Project Management for Practice: A Guide and Toolbox for Successful Projects

The completely revised and updated 2nd edition of this book serves as a toolbox for classic and agile projects. The most important terms and phases of project management are explained in a standards-compliant manner. Then this book deals with cross-project cross-sectional topics and project phase-specific contents with listing of the respective goals and expected results. In addition, aspects of agile project management are presented using Scrum as an example.

This book is a translation of the original German 2^nd edition Projektmanagement für die Praxisby Daud Alam and Uwe Gühl, published by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support the authors

Tips and hints, examples, and checklists from project practice in the automotive and IT environment complement the contents. Templates for own projects are listed and can also be found on the product page of the book on SpringerLink. For students, there is also an extensive question catalog to consolidate the knowledge learned. This gives readers good and quick access to the topic of project management and helps them to be able to carry out their projects successfully.

The Target Groups

• Students (Master)
• Experts/professionals

The Authors

Daud Alam, a graduate in economics, was born in Herat, Afghanistan, in 1955 and began his career as a programmer for a Siemens subsidiary. The second stage of his career was at the software company Wesser-Informatik in Oberaichen. He then worked for the Project Management Academy in Stuttgart as a project manager. Most recently, he worked for Daimler AG for almost 20 years. He is currently commissioned as an IT expert by Daimler AG and also conducts seminars in Germany and abroad for AKKA Technologies SE and the Daimler Bildungsakademie. He taught the first edition of the book for five semesters at Albstadt-Sigmaringen University. He lectures for Daimler AG students at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University and is a lecturer at Pforzheim University.

Uwe Gühl, Dr.-Ing. Dipl. Inform., born 1966 from Offenbach/Main, Germany, works as a freelancer in the fields of IT project management of international on/off-shore projects, IT quality and software test management as well as moderation and international team development. After an apprenticeship and work in social security, he studied computer science and earned a doctorate in mechanical engineering. He researched and worked in companies in the automotive, banking, retail, logistics and media industries as well as at universities both in Germany and internationally in Switzerland, France, U.S.A., India and Thailand.

This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.